BEIJING (Reuters) - Leaning on a cane, Wang Bin hobbled out between the columns of the mausoleum on Tiananmen Square that houses the embalmed body of Mao Zedong, happy he had the strength to visit the ...

Just so you know where they stand, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday declare in the very first sentence of their impeccably detailed biography of Mao Zedong that he “was responsible for well over 70 million ...

This month marks the 40th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and the United States and the start of China’s “reform and opening up.” In the late 1970s, China was ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — Madame Mao's life was filled with lust, betrayal, revenge and murder. So composing an opera based on the story of Jiang Qing — the cruel and vindictive wife of Mao Zedong — was easy ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - In 1981, five years after his death, China's ruling Communist Party began to move slowly away from Mao Zedong and his philosophy. Today, speculation about whether it is poised to ...